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American Quilter's Society
Finalizes Plans for Paducah Quilt Show


Paducah, Kentucky - September 4, 2009: The American Quilter's Society announced
that contracts have been finalized with hotels and convention facilities for the
26th Annual AQS Quilt Show & Contest in Paducah, to be held April 21 - 24, 2010.
The Executive Inn attached to the convention center is now closed and will not
be available during the April show.
The quilt show will be held at the Paducah Expo Center, the Julian Carroll
Convention Center, and the new AQS Pavilion which will be located in the parking
lot of the convention facilities. Quilt show admission will give access to
viewing quilts and shopping the merchant malls in all three locations.
Additional vendors and the AQS "Hurt" Book Sale will be held at the AQS Vendors
on Kentucky in the Finkel Building (200 Kentucky Avenue in downtown Paducah).
Special events will be held in the Carson Four Rivers Center (100 Kentucky
Avenue).

The 2010 AQS Quilt Contest will award $125,000 in cash awards to quilters.
Contest rules are available on the AQS Web site, www.AmericanQuilter.com. The
registration guide will be available in early November. To order a printed
registration guide, send $2.00 for each guide to: AQS, Attn: (name of show)
Registration Guide, PO Box 3290, Paducah, KY 42002-3290.

For lodging, please contact the Paducah Visitors Bureau at www.paducah.travel,
or 1-800-PADUCAH. The AQS Home Bed & Breakfast program will be coordinated by
the Visitors Bureau, starting February 1, 2010.
Tour groups can contact Marcelle Cashon or Laura Davis for information on
admission and ticket sales for the AQS Quilt Show & Contest by calling
270-898-7903.
In addition to the AQS Quilt Show in Paducah, AQS will produce three other
international quilt shows in 2010: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 24 - 27;
Knoxville, Tennessee, July 14 - 17; and Des Moines, Iowa, October 6 - 9.